Art category: 43213 books
by Giles Winterborne
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
If you wanted to enjoy yourself back in 1968, and were so inclined, you might possibly think about going to Art College, perhaps in London, and spending your summer holidays wandering around the great galleries of Europe including the Louvre, the Prado and the Vatican, as well as visiting the Parthenon,...
Universal Principles of Art
100 Key Concepts for Understanding, Analyzing, and Practicing Art
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
A follow-up to Rockport Publishers' best-selling Universal Principles of Design, a new volume will present one hundred principles, fundamental ideas and approaches to making art, that will guide, challenge and inspire any artist to make better, more focused art.Universal Principles of Art serves as...
Art Journal Your Archetypes
Mixed Media Techniques for Finding Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
It's true, isn't it? You have a burning desire to express yourself. But to be successful, confident and happy, you need to know yourself, your true self. That's where archetypes come in. An archetype is a symbolic representation of the repeated patterns of behavior that make you who you are, the driving...
Erotic Art
(Grove Art Essentials)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Derived from eros, the Greek word for human, physical love, the term 'Erotic Art' encompasses the artistic expression of sexuality throughout human history. In this fully illustrated volume, Grove Art Essentials presents a global survey of erotic art from ancient civilizations to the Western art historical...
by Piotr Piotrowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, Eastern Europe saw a new era begin, and the widespread changes that followed extended into the world of art. Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe examines the art created in light of the profound political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that...
Visual Vitriol
The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generation is a vibrant, in-depth, and visually appealing history of punk, which reveals punk concert flyers as urban folk art. David Ensminger exposes the movement's deeply participatory street art, including flyers, stencils,...
The Language of Art
Reggio-Inspired Studio Practices in Early Childhood Settings
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
Incorporate inquiry-based practices into your early childhood classroom or family child care program. Inspired by an approach to teaching and learning born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, The Language of Art emphasizes investigation anchored by drawing, painting, and other art activities. It provides:advice...
by Edward Winkleman, Patton Hindle
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
“A comprehensive guide.” —Artspace
Aspiring and new art gallery owners can find everything they need to plan and operate a successful art gallery with How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery. This new edition has been updated to mark the changes in market and technology over the...
Art as Extraordinary Science
A paradigm for the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Art education has gone through a number of paradigms since its origins in the medieval guilds. Yet ever since joining the university system in the 1970s, art departments have struggled to articulate a contemporary paradigm which accurately reflects what they do, to the extent that it often seems more...
Aboriginal Art and Australian Society
Hope and Disenchantment
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
This book is an investigation of the way the Aboriginal art phenomenon has been entangled with Australian society’s negotiation of Indigenous people’s status within the nation. Through critical reflection on Aboriginal art’s idiosyncrasies as a fine arts movement, its vexed relationship with...
A Tragic Fate
Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The organized theft of fine art by Nazi Germany has captivated worldwide attention in the last twenty years. As much as any other topic arising out of World War Two, stolen art has proven to be an issue that simply will not go away. Newly found works of art pit survivors and their heirs against museums,...
Anarchy and Art
From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
One of the powers of art is its ability to convey the human aspects of political events. In this fascinating survey on art, artists, and anarchism, Allan Antliff interrogates critical moments when anarchist artists have confronted pivotal events over the past 140 years. The survey begins with Gustave...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected...
by Riah Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Interest in art crime is at an all-time high. Academia is committing greater resources to it, lawyers are increasingly specializing in the field, and the public is enthralled. Belief that the art market's opaque and unregulated practices are indirectly to blame for these crimes, is also gaining ground....